Chapters

Also while wandering on sunny Saturday I found myself in Chapters which is a huge 4 story book store and decided to go hunting for some animation books because well lets just say the range in Bendigo is a little lacking. Exactly how I ended up in the cartoon section I'm sure I don't know but I decided while I was there to expand my Calvin and Hobbes selection : D I also managed to score a nice little book on animal anatomy, anouther called drawing with the right side of the brain and a book on charcter modeling and rigging for Maya.
When I got back to the Y I was having a flick through the drawing with the right side of your brain book and I read something very interesting. The author was saying that alot of artists and creative people have alot of trouble starting there work because the left side of the brain tries to over ride actions and thoughts to persue something creative because it requires less imput from the left side. I'm not sure if that is true but that would make sense if it does because I have huge amounts of trouble starting drawing or something similar. Anyway she goes on to say that you can trick the left side by telling it you will only draw for two minutes which it deems acceptiable but once you start you loose track of time and can continue to draw. I don't know if thats true although I don't think you can trick half your brain into thinking your only going to do somthing for 2 minutes. It seemed more probably to me that it accepts the terms that you have givin yourself permission to stop at anytime, because it's true that thinking of sitting down and drawing for 2 or 3 hours is plenty enough to put people off.